I've had the full range of mini-zoo...
Sugar Glider (x2)
Snakes (Sinaloan Milksnake, Albino Cornsnake, Ball Python, Red Tailed Boa, Timber Rattlesnake, Water Moccassin, Copperhead...keeping in mind, the three poisonous are NOT good pets, we trapped them, kept them for a couple months until the local DNR guy came to pick them up and take for milking, and that was when I was YOUNG)
Hedgehog (x2)
Dogs, Cats, Fish, Turtles (box and snapper), some little cayman that a roommate brought home and kept for a while before realizing he's a moron for buying it, and a Red Bearded Dragon.
If you're looking for something that's low maintenance get a snake, if you get a beardy, they're a blast but get it as a hatchling, and handle it handle it handle it handle it! they grow upwards of 2' in body length, and are great fun as long as they're tamed to you handling them and they like you. If not, their bite is arguably one of the most painful I've experienced, second only to a tokay gecko. The cayman didn't even hurt as bad as those two. I was going to buy a tokay cause I like their coloration, love the sounds they make, and they're small, so, I reached into the tank at the petshop to fish him out because the dude that worked there was acting like a pansy and wouldn't (should have taken that as a clue, since he didn't hesitate to stick his hand in with the bigger snakes and actually got bit and shrugged and still grabbed the snake he was after, boxed it, and put it up). Yep, tokay grabbed me by the finger and I learned pain.
Morale of the story: don't buy a tokay. if you want to spend plenty of time with a reptile, get a beardy, they're fun. if you want to spend TONS of time with a rodent-like creature that makes noises at you, pisses out the side of its cage, craps out the side of the cage (seriously, get a catch all tray to put under it), but is the sweetest and softest creature you'll ever have, get a sugar glider, they rock, but, they require way more attention than a child, a wife, or a super needy girlfriend.
